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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, OCTOBER
Limitation Of Births Urged For
Picture shows damage done to the promenade at -Wallasey during severo gales and high sons experienced along the coast of England lost month, and now recurring.
Asiatic Countries
·A PLEA TO OLD PEOPLE
Britain's Population|WarsAsAlternative Decreases With To Redistribution
Expansion
Of Lands.
A PLEA that the older half of the population must "make room" for the younger people was made by Sir Arnold Wilson, M.P., in a public lecture at the British Association meeting at Norwich last month.
His subject was "Science and Population Problema,” and in regard to the population of India and China he said observers saw ΠΟ alternative but 'conscious voluntary limitation of births.
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Italy, Germany and Poland, where the numbers were, in- creasing almost as fast as in Russia, he sald, were feeling the internal pressure of popu-' lation on subsistence.
Immigration into North or South America was barred to the inhabitants of those coun- tries and they were nol welcomed in any part of the
INTERNATIONAL RIVALRY British Empire, yet they were
IN THE PHILIPPINES
conscious that they were
and physically
morally our equals.
THREE-CORNERED DRAMA BEGINS. other aliens, ruthlessly
Washington, Oct. 20.
A three-cornered drama of American dollars, Japan- ese merchants, and Chinese workers will commence in the Philippine Islands soon after the inauguration of the new Commonwealth government on November 15. -
Introduction into office of President Manuel L. Quezon and Vice President Sergio Osena is likely soon to be followed by trade maneuvers on the part of the United States, Japan, and China, to obtain a favourable position in the rich commerce of the Islands.
The 14,000,000 Filipinos, ambitious, progressive, politically adroit, have as their next door neighbours two of the most populous countries_of_the_world—Japan, whose 64,450,000 people have a density per square mile
Italians were welcomed in France after the war, but were now being pushed out, with and cruelly. Their own land could not support them.
"This,"
said Sir Arnold! Wilson, "is the hard case of the world's problem. Are we to dis- tribute the population, or are we to tell each nation to stay [put' and keep its population
down?
"We of the British Empire- the Dominions-alone with the U.S.A. and Russia have under our flag the soil in temperate zones in which Northern races can settle and live and expand." He pointed out that in Britain the population was nearly static.
for the birth-rate was still falling
of. 433; and China, whose 444,478,000 in eighteen pro-and was not sufficient even to re- vinces are crowded to 290 per square mile.
The Philippines with popula- tion density of 111, have barely commenced development of the immense mineral resources in gold, copper, iron ore,, chrome, and other metals; while-the- economic potentialities of rub- ber, coffee, libres, and vegetable oils are great if permanent markets can be assured. Gold production alone now exceeds U.S.$10,000,000 annually.
As the Philippines Common- wealth
for prepares
nutono. mous existence, preparatory to in dependence ten years hence, her fundamental problem is to develop an conomy which will adequately support the future republic, while averting any possible aggression from abroad.
Economic Tics
A possible way to accomplish| this, insular authorities here be. lieve, is to create economic ties be tween the Philippines and the United States of such great com. mon interest that this country will have a practical as well as moral concern in the security of the
·Islands. Since, there is continual agitation here against imports of Philippine competitive farm pro- ducts, the problem for the islands Is ta diversify production.
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SOVIET
ENDS
“POSTCARD -DIVORCE”.
Moscow, Oct. 1. Soviet divorce laws are to be tightened up.
Hitherto a husband or wife could apply to the Marriage and Divorce Bureau, pay a fee, and notify the second party by postcard that the divorce had taken place.
This will now be unlawful. The party to be divorced must first receive formal notification.
| place casualties. The expectation of life was not increasing corres- pondingly and could not do so.
What had happened? Was the decline in the birth-rate u reflex) of our social and economic philo- sophy 7 Among the immédiate causes were?
Later date of marriages of
Women.
Decreased fertility of women due to conditions of life in the large towns in which most of us in this country live.
Decreased desire for children,
and
Growth, as a consequent, of the decreased desire of volun- tary and conscious control of procreation.
Early Marriages We had to reckon with all these factors: taken together they meant that our population would shortly
notably proven the case in cotton be static and might decrease un- tuxliles.
tinuing Interest
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22, 1935.
ACROSS THE PACIFIC
Hongkong-buili, ketch, “Romance”, has crossed the Pacific Ocean, and la réported all well approach- ing Victorin, B.C. Aboard are Captain E. P. Green,
and son.
97 YEAR OLD
BRIDEGROOM
“HE'S A RIP-SNORTER”| CHARGES HIS WIFE
Southbend, Ind., Oct. 10.
A 76 year-alt, bride of our month is searching for her hus band, 97, with charges "the old wildcat turned out in be a pula. hout.
The aged couple, Mr. and Mrs. James Hatfield, married here in August, planned to spend their honeymoon in Kansas until the groom "kicked over the truces."
Mrs. Hatfield told police her husband had been missing several duys and failed to support her ainer their marriage.
She advised authorities hunting|| the groom to travel in pairs,
"He's a rip-snorter," she warną ed, "and don't know in In strength."—United Prens,
Royal Honeymoon In Surrey
THE, Duke of Gloucester and
Lady Alice Montagu- Douglas-Scott are to live at Camberley (Surrey) for the first year of their married life.
Lady Alice told this news in an interview at St. Pancras Station before she left for Scot- fand shortly before the death of her father the Duke of Buccleuch. She added:-
ins
"A house in Camberley not yet been chosen, but it will not be a large establishment." "Have you yet become accustom- ed to the Inevitable publicity that surrounds a public personage?" Lady Alice was asked,"
"Not yet," she answered with a rueful smile, "but I suppose I shall have to get used to it very soon."
Lady Alice, who looked extreme- ly well, left St. Panchas to return to her Scottish home with the same lack of ostentation which marked her arrival.
Arriving at the station in a taxicab, she walked down the platform accompanied only by a porter wheeling her luggage. which included a number of new-looking milliners' and dressmakers' boxes.
With the obvious intention of avoiding any chance of a public demonstration, Lady Alice reached the station with less than four minutes to spare.
less something occurred to change the national outlook. China's Interest
Legislation could not do very Chinn hus an active and con- much to increase births, but it in expansion of could, directly and indirectly, commerce with the Philippines, al-encourage healthy men and women ready shown by official studies and to marry, and marry early, and the sending of a congul-general produce quality rather than with rank of minister to Manila quantity. last year. In the light of history, "I am not one of those." he said, however, China's great interest in "who believe that it is necessary to
"Let us all treat young married the Philippines would be to find an encourage the middle-class to have people rather more fiberally ench
have fewer.
home, "Environment is. all import-make them feel that we recognise Search them out, and ant; heredity less The that of all forms of production working-class stock in England that of healthy children is the is capable of providing in the most valuable." future, as in the past, men and women of the highest quality. "Ill-health due to unsuitable and
The immense known deposits or gullet for the migration of her more children and the musses to in our own factory, and shop and
gold, chrome, copper, and fron ore in the Philippines are a potential treasure-chest to American capital, while American Interests long have contemplated rubber plantations in the islands, thus far uneconomic because of the land laws. The American investments in the Islands now are little more than US$250,- 000,000. A Filipino alliance with the dollar, might in a few decades raise the total to U.S.$1,000,000,000. The Japanese merchants' acute Interest in the situation rises from recent strenuous attempts to cap- ture the islands' retuli tradu. The Japanese steadily gain in a field; until recently largely occupied by Chinese and Filipinos.
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teeming millions. Throughout the Spanish regime, Philippines im- migration was subject to numer- Qua restrictions..
10.
Curbing Expansion "We must face the fact," said
The United Stutes milltary government of the Philippines. shortly after the occupation in 1898, provided that the Chinese ex- insufficient food, the consequence Sir Arnold in conclusion, "that In elusion acts in force in the United of ignoranes as well as poverty, present circumstances the price of States should be made operative in has stunted the lives and cramped a certain amount of international the Philippines. Except former the development of more than it peace is the growth of internal residents who left the islands be-has killed."
strosses within those countries tween December 31, 1895,
and September, 1898, and such exempt: Government is, I repent, unable to numbers, in needs, and In
"Legislation and the power of whose population is developing in ed classes as officials, students, and do much. We ourselves, volun-bitions. The longer we maintain merchants, Chinese were refused tarily of our own free will, can the territorial status quo the permission to fond in the Islands.
do far more, each man and woman more certain and inevitable be Ban On Chinese
in his own sphere.
comes the expansión of pent-up forces.
"And let us, who are the older In 1933, 72,000 Chinese mer The United States thereby erect half of the population, accept and chants in the Philippines handled 'ed a dyke against the large-scale put into practice the view that we 290,118,000 pesos of retail trade; Influx of Chinese which subsequent- must make room for the younger 50,000 Filipinos did 171,838,000 | ly was continued by the Philippines people. Are we spending more on pesos, In 1985, according to un- Insular Government. Numerous ourselves than we should, and official estimates, Chinese, Japan- evasions have from, time to time leaving less for those on the esc, and Filipinos are running; been rumoured.
threshold of life? neck and neck.
Introduction of the plantation Japanese Supromacy
system in the Philippines, or com- Once the Japanese are able to mercial negotiations between the establish their retail supremacy, Islands and China, might_cally they will be in a remarkabla post-lead to a reopening of the Chinese tion to favour the products of immigration question.—United Japan industries, as has already Press.
um-
"Are we prepared to put teeth into Article 14 of the Covenant and to compel by sanctions, which means" force, the acceptance of territorial adjustments whereby growing nations will be able to expand "Are we sufficiently generous without recourse to war into in our attitude towards impro- habitable land now unoccupied vident young folk who are or only sparsely populated? marrying young, fike many of "If not, thero is no alternative us did? Are we too censorious prospect before us but periodical in our attitude towards those wars, the means whereby some who love too early and too nations grow and in growing push, well?i
others into the background."
Ethiopian Is World's Oldest Language
AND IS STILL CALLED THE "LANGUAGE OF THE FREE”
Washington, Oct. 10. Ethiopian is the oldest langu- age in that it has departed the least in its form from the original proto-Semitic, according to Dr. John P. Harrington, ethnologist of the Smithsonian Institution.
Even the Hebrew in which the Bible is writtch has gotte # long road of development beyond even the modern Ethiopian. Hidden away in the African Alps, this old language still sur- vives, uncorrupted by the cen- turies.
Let us for instance take the name of the letter "a". This let- ter in its capitul form still pre- serves to-day very much of its original pattern, which was that of a crude figure of the liend of the ox. The descending strokes at the bottom of capital ""A" ure the horns of the head of the ox. An- cient Egyptian has a very similar symbol. The natives of central Celebes have similar carvings of -the-head-of-the-water-buffalo-on-
the beams of their houses. Now, the name of this letter and of the ox in the primitive Semitic, spoken 5,000 B. C. is "alf".
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So also with "b", the second letter of the alphabet. The name. of the letter means house, and the form of the letter is a picture of a house. The ancient proto-Semitic word for house was "beat." clent and modern Ethiopian also has "beet," whereas the Hebrew, even tho Hebrew of the Bible, has already changed the word to "beeth," ending with "th" Instend of "t"
Ethiopia is the oldest Christian country, having been completely converted to Christianity at a date somewhere after 200 A. D. The Ethiopian literature is from the ancient times rich, consisting of.. Bible translations, prayer books, liturgies, and a wealth of docu- ments of every description. An- cient Ethiopian was spoken down to 1,600 A.D., when It broke up into. modern dialects.
Ethiopia has been called from the first "lenaaica" tongue or langu- ago,"ge'cze", (of the free), that is, language of the free. Why this name was applied has never been known..
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London, Oct. 5. Evening Standard has given the English public some Ups on how to pronounce Ethioplan
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Taking its Information from a standard guide published for the Permanent Committee of Geo- graphical Names for Oncial Use, this newspaper ollers the follow ing
pronunciations ak correct for all professing to speak the King's English. (Italicised Jettern show where the stress falls). Some of the more im portant names are pronounced thus: Addis Ababan, Adoowan for Adows, Makdalan for Magdala (a mount once stormed by the British), Tann or Twanna for Lake Tann. Ankabar for Ankober Gwollam for Gojjam, Harar for Harar, and Ogaden for Ogaden – United Press.
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